Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Brownsville, FL

Brownsville, also known locally as Brown Sub, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, about 6 miles northwest of downtown Miami.

Brownsville was originally a settlement for white families in the 1920s, and Black families began moving in between the late 1940s and early 1960s as the population around nearby Liberty Square expanded.

By the mid-1960s Brownsville was a thriving community for Black professionals, but the riots of 1968 and 1980 and the outlawing of restrictive housing covenants set off decades of middle- and upper-class flight.

Brownsville's population fell from 23,442 in 1970 to a low of 14,393 in 2000, then grew in the 2010 census for the first time in over 40 years.

At the 2020 census Brownsville had 16,583 residents packed into just 2.28 square miles, a density of about 7,280 people per square mile.

Brownsville has about 5,849 households, and about 44% of them are headed by a woman with no spouse or partner present, one of the distinctive household patterns in Miami-Dade.

Construction began in 2010 on the $100 million Brownsville Transit Village around the Brownsville Metrorail station, adding 467 apartments in five towers as one of the largest transit-oriented affordable housing projects in Miami.

Brownsville is served by two Metrorail stations, Brownsville and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, and its local schools include Brownsville Middle School and Miami Northwestern Senior High School.

Brownsville is home to the historic Georgette's Tea Room House, now owned by a Seventh-day Adventist church.